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21. Xanthorhoe castanea sp. no v. 



Foreioingx : dull whitisli, suffused in parts with brownish grey ; basal jiatcli 

 rather large, pale brownish, its enter edge darker and gently cnrved ; crossed by a 

 paler curved band ; central fascia dull chestnut-brown, darker along its edges, twice 

 as wide ou costa as on inner margin ; the inner edge cnrved parallel to the basal 

 l)atch, from whicli it is sejjarated by a narrow j>ale band, with a dark line through 

 it close to the fascia : its outer edge bluntly rounded below costa, and angularly 

 projecting at vein 4, marked by brown dashes on veins, projecting inwards ; cell-spot 

 blackish, in a jialer space ; beyond the fascia is a broad pale band, traversed by a 

 dark line close to fascia, and edged outwardly by a lunulate-dentate line, marked 

 by dark teeth on tlie veins projecting inwardly ; snbmarginal line regularly lunnlate, 

 paler than the brownish grey external area, preceded on costa by a brown blotch ; 

 pairs of black spots on margin on each side of the veins ; fringe brownish grey. 



Hindwings : whitish, suffused with grey at base and along inner margin, where 

 are seen the beginnings of waved dark lines, three central and two submarginal. 



Underside dirty whitish, sprinkled with grey, with the lines obscurely marked 

 in grey ; cell-spots black. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark grey. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



One S from the (iourais Valley, Kashmir. 



Superficially mnch like £. subangulata Kollar, which, however, is placed by 

 Hampson in his section of Cidaria with simple antennae ; vein 6 is stalked 

 with 7, 8, 9. 



Subfamily TEPHROCLYSTIINAE. 

 22. Gymnoscelis picta sp. nov. 



Forewings : with gronnd-colunr pinkish ochreous, which is almost obliterated 

 by suffusion of fuscous and olive-brown ; basal area brownish fuscous, edged by a 

 distinct whitish ochreous line from two-fifths of costa, angled bluntly outwards in 

 cell, then running oblii|uely waved inwards to one-third of inner margin ; the dark 

 area crossed in the middle by a slightly paler curved line ; outer line whitish, 

 regularly crenulate, from two-thirds of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, outcurved 

 in middle ; the central fascia included more brownish than fuscous, the veins across 

 it minutely dotted with white and black ; marginal area beyond wholly filled up 

 with dark fuscous, the submarginal line being very obscure, and indicated by a slight 

 pale patch on costa and at middle of outer margin ; a large pinkish ochreous patch 

 of ground-colour from costa to vein 6 beyond central fascia ; marginal line and fringe 

 dark, both interrupted by a distinct pale dash at the vein ends. 



Hindwings : ochreous with slight traces of darker ochreous or pale brownish 

 curved lines ; cell-spot black, distinct ; the veins pale, speckled with black ; fringe 

 ochreous. 



Underside blackish; a cnrved whitish fascia beyond central band, joined to 

 the pale spot at middle of outer margin, and a pale space below costa round the 

 cell-spots, which are both distinct. Head fuscous ; thorax and patagia fuscous 

 mixed with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous, with a subdorsal row of small black spots, 

 the second and anal segments partially ringed with brown. 



Exi)ause of wings : 17 mm. 



One 6 from the Khasia Hills. 



